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Louisville Baseball released this fall wrap up video. This season is one that most people are looking forward to for a multitude of reasons. One being uncertainty. The Cards lost a ton of talent to the MLB. Despite that the Cards are ranked as high as top 10. As a UofL Baseball fanatic I’m interested to see how we get to that seeing that we lost so much talent.

Here is what the die hard baseball fans have been waiting for since the Super Regionals ended. The schedule release. The regulat season may start in Florida but it will end in Louisville v d FSU then a trip to Slugger Field fire the first time ever in the ACC Championship. Here is the month by month breakdown for you:

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship will be played at Louisville Slugger Field in downtown Louisville as announced by the conference on Tuesday. Originally slated for Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina, the 2017 baseball championship was among eight neutral site championships relocated by the ACC.

Louisville Slugger Field, which opened in 2000, boasts a seating capacity of 13,131. Home the Louisville Bats’ minor league team, the stadium played host to the 2008 Triple-A All-Star Game and features 32 private suites in addition to second-level club seating.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The 2016 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, featuring rising University of Louisville juniors Devin Hairston and Brendan McKay, split its four games against Chinese Taipei last week while also withstanding Super Typhoon Nepartak, which made landfall in Taiwan on July 8.

In a series originally slated for five games, Team USA won games two (3-1) and four (3-2) while dropping games one (8-7) and three (3-2) before the deciding fifth game was cancelled in the fourth inning due to heavy rains and lightning. The two teams played on July 5-6 as scheduled before adjusting the slate with a doubleheader on July 7 in advance of the arrival of Nepartak. After successfully navigating the heavy rains and winds on July 8, the attempt to determine a series winner on July 9 was halted early because of inclement weather.

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LUBBOCK, Texas – University of Louisville sophomore pitcher and first baseman Brendan McKay was named Friday as the John Olerud Two-way Player of the Year Award winner becoming the first repeat winner of the prestigious honor.

After winning the award as a freshman in 2015, the Darlington, Pennsylvania native did not suffer from any kind of sophomore slump successfully maintaining his status as the nation’s top two-way player. McKay put up tremendous numbers in 2016 en route to earning All-America honors from six different organizations as well as garnering All-Atlantic Coast Conference First Team accolades as both a pitcher and hitter. He was also a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, which honors the top player in all of college baseball.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The summer tour for the 2016 USA Baseball Collegiate Team, which includes rising Louisville juniors Devin Hairston and Brendan McKay, officially kicked off Monday with day one of training camp at the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California.

Hairston and McKay are among 29 of the nation’s top collegiate underclassmen in Southern California for this week’s team trials, which began with an afternoon practice session on Monday. Team USA will play five games against teams from the California Collegiate League, starting today (Tuesday) at 1:30 p.m., PT against the Santa Barbara Foresters at Dodger Stadium. The USA Collegiate National Team and the Foresters will also play on Wednesday (June 29) at 5 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on the campus of UC-Santa Barbara.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following its fourth straight NCAA Super Regional appearance and a second straight ACC Atlantic Division championship, the Louisville baseball program kicked off its preparations for the 2017 season Monday with the announcement of the team’s summer baseball assignments.

The Cardinals have 18 underclassmen assigned to four different wooden bat leagues as well as the USA Collegiate National Team this summer. Rising juniors Devin Hairston and Brendan McKay are leading the way as they compete this summer with Team USA, starting with the team training camp on June 27 in Southern California.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville baseball team added three more All-America honors on Saturday as the American Baseball Coaches Association named sophomore pitcher/first baseman Brendan McKay and junior outfielder Corey Ray to its first team and included sophomore shortstop Devin Hairston as a third team selection.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville junior catcher Will Smith was named Sunday to the 2016 American Baseball Coaches Association Gold Glove Team becoming the first Cardinals player to earn the prestigious defensive honor.

The baseball season is over. Like many of my fellow UofL Baseball fan friends I am hoping that one of the draftees will return. Coach Mac said he expected all of the day one draftees to leave but I was holding out hope. The guy that I thought would be most likely to return was Blake Tiberi. After seeing his tweet earlier I no longer have hope.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville baseball team set a school record Wednesday with six players receiving All-America recognition from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, including five first team honorees.

The following was posted on my Facebook page by my guy Bob Burdi, father of the 100 mile per hour boys. I thought it was share worthy. He talks about the kind of person his son is. From all of the interactions I’ve had with him, it’s easy to see how both of his boys turned out so well. Great guy. They have represented or university well. Enjoy the read!

There is no doubt that yesterday’s finish is one that we will never forget. It was heart breaking for us and even more so for the players and coaches. The guy who finished on the mound will undoubtedly feel like the results were all his fault. They weren’t. Baseball is agame of good bounced, bad bounces & just plain weirdness at times.

Zack Burdi is THE best reliever in college baseball and shouldn’t be treated any other way. I haven’t seen anyone being ignorant towards him but I’m sure some were. We all wanted to know what our guy was thinking and feeling. This morning he tweeted:

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A ninth inning, walk-off grand slam by pinch hitter Sam Cohen clinched UC Santa Barbara’s first College World Series berth as the 13th-ranked Gauchos knocked off the No. 2 national seed Louisville baseball team with a 4-3 victory Sunday in game two of the NCAA Super Regional at Jim Patterson Stadium.